Press Release:

-  Established CompactPCI^® Dual PMC Host Board scaled up to support the
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 760

February 2005 – Concurrent Technologies announces support for the latest Intel® Pentium® M processor 760, running at 2.0 GHz with 533MHz Front Side Bus (FSB). Concurrent Technologies achieves this as part of the upgrade path, utilizing their well-established CompactPCI board, the PP 312/01x, which operates with either 400MHz or 533MHz FSB speeds. The PP 312/01x, a dual PMC Host board, also supports the Intel Pentium M processor 745, running at 1.8 GHz with 400MHz FSB. The PP 312/01x, a single slot board, will support up to 2 Gbytes DDR SDRAM and as well as two PMC sites with front and rear I/O, the PP 312/01x supports dual Gigabit Ethernet, PICMG® 2.16 (Ethernet fabric), PICMG 2.9 (IPMI) and PICMG 2.1 (hot swap). The PP 312/01x can operate as a system controller board, a peripheral board or as a satellite board (blade) and to date it has been used in a wide range of applications within the telecommunications markets.

The Intel Pentium M processors 760 and 745 are on 90nm process technology and provide remarkable performance versus power dissipation ratio. These processors have 2 MB L2 cache with an Enhanced Data Pre-fetcher, merge CPU operations with Micro-Ops Fusion, and have Advanced Instruction Prediction of program branches, a Dedicated Stack Manager in hardware, Intelligent Power Distribution (clock gating based on program demand), Deep(er) Sleep Alert States and Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology. For increased reliability, heat sinks are used instead of  fans for cooling the processor.

As an intelligent PMC carrier with dual 64-bit 66MHz PMC sites, the PP 312/01x is ideally suited to intensive I/O or data applications. Each site supports 3.3V or 5V PCI signaling and is available for user modules, standard PMC or PrPMC modules. As well as front I/O, the PMC I/O connector signals from both PMC sites are routed to the rear connectors (J4 is not fitted). Plus, for faster CompactPCI control/data plane throughput the PP 312/01x can auto-configure, on insertion/power-up, in a system operating at 66MHz backplane PCI signaling speeds.

To cater for embedded applications there is 32 Mbytes of Application Flash memory and 512 Kbytes of battery backed SRAM. For a wider range of applications there is an EIDE interface (up to Ultra-DMA100), with installed EIDE options for an on-board EIDE 2.5-inch disk drive or CompactFlash™/Microdrive™ carrier, both within a single slot. Other features available are dual 10baseT/100base-TX/1000baseT Ethernet interfaces, graphics interface, keyboard/mouse interface, floppy disk interface, 3 RS232 serial channels, 1 USB port, parallel printer port, PC real-time clock, watchdog timer and long duration timer. LAN boot firmware is included as well. For applications requiring rear I/O connections a transition module is available.

For ease of integration, the PP 312/01x supports many of today’s leading operating systems, including Linux®, Windows® 2000, Windows NT®, Windows® XP, Windows® XP Embedded, VxWorks®, Solaris® and QNX®.

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